Rohingya Crisis
UNHCR says if the death toll is confirmed, it will be the biggest loss of life so far this year.
Published 22 Mar, 2024 07:30pm
After a $125 million donation shortfall, monthly food vouchers have been cut from $12 to $10 per person starting in March, the UN WFP announced.
Updated 03 Mar, 2023 09:56am
Police demand hefty bribes from refugees under threat of arrest, says HRW report.
Published 17 Jan, 2023 01:24pm
Foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will hold talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart on water sharing, trade, border issues.
Published 04 Mar, 2021 02:02pm
Authorities have not found the original boat, thought to be now carrying around 500 people.
Updated 25 Jun, 2020 09:17am
Burning of villages was a tactic used on a large scale by the military in Rakhine in 2017, investigations say.
Updated 27 May, 2020 08:46am
Guterres says 308 refugees on Bhashan Char island should be moved to camps after their time in quarantine is completed.
Published 17 May, 2020 01:24pm
Captain of the fish trawler, carrying 500 men, also died.
Updated 17 Apr, 2020 07:45am
It was not immediately clear where the group started their boat journey.
Updated 15 Feb, 2020 09:36am
Officials say the passengers were enticed by traffickers to board the boat headed for Malaysia.
Published 11 Feb, 2020 06:59pm
The Rohingya remain “at serious risk of genocide,” says presiding Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf.
Published 23 Jan, 2020 04:22pm
Panel admits "war crimes"; activists term report as a "whitewash".
Published 21 Jan, 2020 11:27am
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the country will always be at China's side.
Updated 18 Jan, 2020 11:31am
Bhasan Char is ready for habitation.
Updated 18 Jan, 2020 09:02am
Ichiro Maruyama has been previously quoted as saying that potential trade sanctions on Myanmar would be “nonsense”.
Updated 15 Jan, 2020 03:34pm
Says the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Muslims was the unfortunate result of a battle with insurgents.
Updated 12 Dec, 2019 08:42am
The leader acknowledges use of disproportionate force at times, says the conflict is “complex and not easy to fathom”.
Updated 11 Dec, 2019 04:35pm
Myanmar leader is expected to repeat denials, justify military "clearance operations" as counterterrorism measures.
Published 10 Dec, 2019 08:07pm
Gambia's lawsuit accuses Myanmar of genocide — the most serious international crime — against Rohingya Muslim minority.
Published 08 Dec, 2019 01:56pm
Nobel laureate is preparing to defend the country at the UN’s highest court on Dec 10.
Published 02 Dec, 2019 11:05am
Suu Kyi will personally lead a team to The Hague to "defend the national interest of Myanmar," her office says.
Updated 21 Nov, 2019 08:36am
UN investigators and rights groups say Myanmar forces carried out mass rapes, killings and burning of Rohingya homes.
Published 03 Nov, 2019 06:26pm
Rights groups warn the island might not be able to withstand violent storms during the annual monsoon season.
Published 20 Oct, 2019 02:28pm
"There are three large camps. We’ll fence the three camps with barbed wires," says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.
Updated 27 Sep, 2019 08:45am
At least 13 refugees have been killed in alleged gunfights between criminals and officers since a local leader’s murder.
Updated 23 Sep, 2019 08:50am
"It will become a legal issue whether or not there is an element of culpability here," says fact-finding mission chair.
Updated 18 Sep, 2019 08:55am
Myanmar is "denying wrongdoing, destroying evidence [and] refusing to conduct effective investigations", says UN report.
Published 16 Sep, 2019 03:44pm
“We've seen Myanmar could not win Rohingya's trust in creating a conducive situation [in Rakhine] for their return.”
Published 12 Sep, 2019 10:14pm
Formal education in Bangladesh is forbidden for refugees.
Updated 09 Sep, 2019 08:27am
Bangladesh’s telecommunications regulatory body cites a security threat and illegal phone use as reasons for the ban.
Updated 04 Sep, 2019 08:49am
